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And There’s Pirates Too!

Peter Duck by Arthur Ransome

December 25, 2025 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

So I decided that it was time to get back to my comfort zone of Swallows and Amazons, the 1930s series of adolescents messing around in boats and parents blithely telling them to have a good time but be sure to be back in time for the school term.  English, of course, if you couldn’t have guessed. But this, the third in the series, was something quite different, although the characters are mostly the same.  Peter Duck appears in the second story, but as am […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: 1930s British Children's Lit, Adlescnts on their own more or less, And a real life Peter Duck this time, arthur ransome, earthquakes, Messing around in boats, pirates, Sure don't write them like this anymore :D, Typhoons!

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:65 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Suspense · Tags: 1930s British Children's Lit, Adlescnts on their own more or less, And a real life Peter Duck this time, arthur ransome, earthquakes, Messing around in boats, pirates, Sure don't write them like this anymore :D, Typhoons! ·
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I feel about as prepared as this 12-year-old

Disaster Days by Rebecca Behrens

February 26, 2020 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

Hannah forgot her inhaler today, again, which is annoying. But what is more annoying is that her mother continues to be overprotective and accuses her of irresponsibility anytime she forgets to bring it along. But Hannah is about to embark on her second babysitting job in their little Pelling island community, and that seems to be a good way to showcase her independence. She took the sitter course, after all, and it’s the first night she’ll watch Oscar and Zoe without their mom around.   What […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: asthma, Children, children's book, earthquakes, natural disaster, rebecca behrens, survival

cosbrarian's CBR12 Review No:8 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: asthma, Children, children's book, earthquakes, natural disaster, rebecca behrens, survival ·
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Geological love stories and bisons fleeing Yellowstone

April 5, 2014 by lyndamk Leave a Comment

Considering all the earthquake talk and stories about animals fleeing Yellowstone (but not really), I figured now would be a good time for a review of Simon Winchester’s A Crack in the Edge of the World: American and the Great California Earthquake of 1906.  I admit that I sometimes like to read disaster nonfiction (I don’t get out enough anymore) and from the title it seems like a disaster story, but it is much more than that. Winchester in good geologist fashion gives you the entire […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: california, earthquakes, lyndamk

lyndamk's CBR6 Review No:6 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: california, earthquakes, lyndamk ·
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